Global Institutional Investors to Discuss African Co-investment Opportunities in New York in September

31 July 2015
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Africa Investor (Sandton)
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Africa investor (Ai), a leading international investment and communications group, today announced that the Africa investor (Ai) CEO Institutional Investment Summit will convene pension and sovereign wealth funds from across Africa to engage in a co-investment dialogue with the global institutional investment community at the Thomson Reuters offices on 195 Broadway on the 24th-25th of September 2015.

The 8th annual Ai CEO Institutional Investment Summit will focus on facilitating transactional investment partnerships between select African and US institutional investors, and sovereign wealth and pension funds, to invest in Africa's fastest growing sectors and capital markets. The transaction-focused Ai CEO Institutional Investment Summit will convene investor partners from African and US pension and sovereign wealth funds, as well as leading CEOs from listed companies in Africa, to investigate co-investment opportunities.

The Summit will also host a closed door high-level African Heads of State investment session for investors that will discuss major infrastructure and capital market investment opportunities.Commenting on the Summit, Hubert Danso, CEO and Vice Chairman of Africa investor, said; "Increasing co-investing is not only essential amongst African institutional investors, but also a key strategy for global institutional investors seeking to participate in Africa's growth story. Africa investor is pleased therefore to be at the forefront of this agenda and to once again host this vital gathering of pension and sovereign wealth funds and other institutional investors with an interest in Africa."

During the event, Africa investor will also host the highly anticipated Ai Capital Markets Index Series Awards 2015. These Awards aim to profile African capital market success stories to the global investment community and are designed to recognise Africa's best performing stock exchanges, listed companies, investment banks, research teams, regulators, socially responsible companies and fund managers. It is a unique African capital markets event.

Ai CEO Institutional Investment Summit partners include: Thomson Reuters, the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA), the World Pensions Council, the Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative, the Global Partnerships Forum, the United Nations Office of the Special Advisor on Africa, Preqin, AllAfrica and Quadrant PR. The invitation-only Ai CEO Institutional Investment Summit and Ai Capital Markets Index Series Awards will take place at the Thomson Reuters offices on 195 Broadway, in New York, USA, on the 24th-25th of September 2015.

For more information on the Ai CEO Institutional Investment Summit and Ai Capital Markets Index Series Awards, contact Catherine Wright on +27 11 783 2431 or cwright@africainvestor.com.

About Africa investor - www.africainvestor.com Africa investor is a specialist investment and communications group advising governments, international organisations and businesses on communication strategies for capital market and foreign direct investments in Africa. Africa investor publishes Africa investor, the leading international newsstand magazine for Africa's investment decision makers; maintains the Africa investor 40 Investors' Index, hosts the Ai Index Series Summit & Awards and the Africa investor Infrastructure Projects Summit & Awards, among other events.

About the Africa investor Index Series Africa investor Research provides a family of products and services that support our clients' investment processes in major asset classes across Africa. Our goal is to leverage our deep understanding of Africa's financial markets to turn data-driven insights into tools that our clients can use to meet their investment process needs. Ai produces weekly, value-traded adjusted, market capitalisation-weighted indices. Its Ai100 and Ai 40 Investors' indexes capture the top 40 and 100 of the largest and most liquid publicly traded stocks across Africa ranking them by market capitalisation and by liquidity as measured by the average daily value traded in US Dollars. The Ai40 and Ai100 indices can be found on Bloomberg and Reuters and are licensed to fund managers.

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